Hans Meier-Branecke

Hans Meier-Branecke (born July 4, 1900 in Stadtoldendorf ; † April 10, 1981 in Braunschweig ) was a German lawyer and Nazi war judge . After 1945 he was a senior judge and from 1950 president of the Senate at the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court .

Life

Career in National Socialism

After studying law and receiving his doctorate, he became a local court advisor in Schöppenstedt on October 1, 1932 . During his studies he became a member of the "Student Choir of Georgia Augusta" (today StMV Blue Singers ). Meier-Branecke who is a member of the steel helmet was entered after the " seizure " of the Nazis of the NSDAP in and was registered in May 1933 as a member. In March 1935 he joined the army judicial service and was appointed judge- martial on October 1, 1935 . He was a member of the NS motor corps and the NS law enforcement association . In 1939 he was promoted to senior war judge. He had been active in occupied Poland since April 1941 and, after the German attack on the Soviet Union, controlled the military judges there as a flying army judge . On October 1, 1943 he was appointed Ministerialrat, and in 1944 he was promoted to the Supreme War Judge. In the legal department of the Army High Command , as head of department, he confirmed numerous death sentences . He was a permanent employee of the magazine for military law published by Heinrich Dietz .

After the Second World War

After he was classified as unencumbered in the denazification process , Meier-Branecke had been a district judge in Braunschweig since November 1, 1945 . The appointment to the Higher Regional Court followed on January 1, 1947. On September 1, 1950 he became President of the Senate and Chairman of the Braunschweig Penal and Compensation Senate. Between 1959 and 1965, under his chairmanship, several communists were convicted of subversive opinions. In 1962, he upheld the conviction of Jehovah's Witnesses for conscientious objection. He had the part of the rejected rehabilitation in 1944 under violation of the law condemned to death and executed 19-year-old Erna Wazinski . Meier-Branecke was a board member of the Lower Saxony Judges' Association until 1961 .

plant

• The applicability of private law norms in administrative law. Göttingen 1925 ( dissertation ), DNB 570899044 .

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt / Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 .
• Helmut Kramer (ed.): Braunschweig under the swastika. Bourgeoisie, Justice and Church - A series of lectures and their echo. Magni-Buchladen, Braunschweig 1981, ISBN 3-922571-03-4 .
• Hans Meier-Branecke, Marlis Claas (ed.): An army judge in the Russian War: my father's letters from the field (1941–1945). Frieling, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8280-1987-0 .
• Helmut Kramer: judge in court. In: National Socialist Special Jurisdiction. Volume 15 of the series of legal contemporary history North Rhine-Westphalia. Düsseldorf 2007, DNB 986490210 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Meier-Branecke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Helmut Kramer: Careers and self- justifications of former Wehrmacht lawyers after 1945. on kramerwf.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 85.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 388.